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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator, was born today in 1864. He is among the painters described as being Post-Impressionists, with #VincentvanGogh , #PaulGauguin , and #GeorgesSeurat .
When #ClaudeMonet , born #onthisday in 1840, met fellow artist #EugeneBoudin , everything changed. Boudin taught Monet 'en plein air' (outdoor) techniques and took Monet on painting excursions. Monet thought of Boudin as his master, whom 'he owed everything to' for his success.
Auguste Rodin was born #onthisday in 1840. Rodin modeled the human body with naturalism, and his sculptures celebrate individual character and physicality. After a two-month trip to Italy in 1875, he claimed 'it is Michelangelo who has freed me from academic sculpture.'
Robert Mapplethorpe was born #onthisday in 1946 in Floral Park, Queens. Of his childhood he said, 'I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave.'